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Studies in Psychology
Estudios de Psicología
Volume 32, 2011 - Issue 1
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Original Articles

Religious factors in moral decision-making: Towards an integrated, socio-cultural, developmental, model

Factores religiosos en la toma de decisiones morales: hacia un modelo integrado sociocultural evolutivo

Pages 147-161 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Abstract

For far too long, developmental approaches in the psychology of religion have paid insufficient attention to the richness and variety of social and cultural factors in human development and their relationship to religious belief, practice, belonging, identity, and world views, and often, related framing of spiritual questions, concerns, and disciplines. If scholars in the psychology of human development and psychology of religion have offered critical appraisals of the shortcomings of the neo-Piagetian, cognitive-developmental models that have dominated the scientific literature, and offered promising contributions and needed correctives to the omissions of cognitive-developmental approaches, the field is still in need of an integrated, socio-cultural developmental approach to human development and religious functioning. In this article we propose one way of moving toward a more integrated approach in these fields, with special attention to the advantages of such an effort in the study of religious elements in moral decision-making and moral development.

Resumen

Durante demasiado tiempo, los enfoques evolutivos de la psicología de la religión han prestado poca atención a la riqueza y la variedad de factores sociales y culturales en el desarrollo humano y su relación con las creencias, la práctica, la pertenencia, la identidad religiosas y su visión del mundo, y con frecuencia enmarcan aspectos relacionados con preguntas, preocupaciones y disciplinas de naturaleza espiritual. Aunque los estudiosos de la psicología del desarrollo humano y la psicología de la religión han ofrecido valoraciones críticas sobre las limitaciones de los modelos neopiagetianos, cognitivos-evolutivos, que han dominado la literatura científica, y han ofrecido colaboraciones prometedoras y la voluntad necesaria de subsanar las omisiones de los enfoques cognitivos-evolutivos, sigue siendo necesario un enfoque integrado sociocultural evolutivo del desarrollo humano y el funcionamiento religioso. En este artículo se propone una forma de avanzar hacia un enfoque integrado de estos campos, con especial atención a las ventajas que dicho esfuerzo representa en cuanto al estudio de elementos religiosos en la toma de decisiones morales y el desarrollo moral.

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